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Restart : yes last week
note: this seemed to solve the problem, then slowness just came back

HDD: 730Gb left of 1Tb

Page files: ? (what are these?)

Maintenance: I was in the understanding that there are cron jobs that do this automatically.

Anything special I should do as maintenance ?

Forgot to mention: the 1tb disk is set as 2 RAID slices

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1. 1 week ago is OK, I thought you might have been running it for ages.

2. More than enough space left, no worries here.

3. A pagefile is a VM( Virtual Memory) and is a file which the system writes to if it runs out of physical memory, they are located in /private/var/vm

4. You could set up maintenance in a cron job AFAIK but standard OTB OS X only does three scripts, namely daily,weekly and monthly

5. Maintenance, I'll explain below.

6. I don't know much about raid, don't think it should be an issue, but you never know.

Now for maintenance, there are plenty of free maintenance programs, like Onyx, in onyx these two are the most important, maintenance and cleaning.
I myself do this manually but this will be easier for you.

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